LUNACY REFORM URGED
“LIGHT OP GOD ON DARK PLAGES.’’
SYDNEY, December 7. A deputation of the Lunacy Reform League was introduced yesterday to the Chief Secretary (Mr Cakes) by Mr Tubbs, who raid that a patient did not get a pioper trial on tho question of his sanity or insanity, that a modified jury system should bo applied, that the average medical practitioner vvae not qualified to deal with mental cases, and that two laymen and a doctor should be appointed to judge a patient’s mental qualities before lie was thrown into a mental hospital. Miss M. Gullett said that inmates of asylums were not allowed to write uncensored and unrestricted, letters. They should be allowed the utmost freedom in this matter.
Madame Bell said that there iveje too many noxious weeds in these asylums. The patients were cruelly treated, and the responsible officials were callously indifferent. “In tho interest of the community.’ she said, “ the light of God should be cast on those dark holes. Tho public- should know what is going on and being tolerated.” Mr Oakes told the deputation that he would let them know in writing of his decision.
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Evening Star, Issue 18509, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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193LUNACY REFORM URGED Evening Star, Issue 18509, 17 December 1923, Page 6
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